Effective October 1, 1973,
Thomas C. ("Tom") Fredrickson
was promoted to Division Super-
intendent-Utilities, and Simon A.
Wever to Process Foreman-Ref-
ining Operations Center and
Light Ends Division in the
Process Department. In the
Mechanical Department, J. W.
("Jerry") Jackson advanced to
Supervising Engineer in the
Electrical Engineering Section,
while in the Technical Depart-
ment, Francisco ("Frankie")
Kock and Adolf ("Dolf") Genser
became Senior Engineers.
Tom Fredrickson came to La-
go in 1968 and was assigned to
the Mechanical-Special Project
Engineering Section as a Senior
Engineer. The following year he
went to work in the General En-

gineering Section until 1970
when he moved to the former
Mechanical-Maintenance & Con-
struction, General Division as an
Electrical Maintenance Supervi-
sor. Early in 1972 he became an
Engineering Associate in this
division, where in November
1972 he was promoted to Zone
Supervisor.
Tom, who had been filling the

post of Division Superintendent
since early this year, is in charge
of the Utilities Division and Acid
Plant.
He is a 1960 B.S. graduate in
Electrical Engineering from the
Michigan Technology University.
His previous experience includes
utility and electrical system
operation at the Hawaiian Elec-
tric Company in Honolulu and

Public Service (Electric Utility)
of Indiana. At Lago he has work-
ed in electrical design and
maintenance and in the fields of
communications and electrical
systems.
He has followed the Kepner-
Tregoe, Refinery Economics and
Effective Supervision courses.
Tom's favorite pastimes are
(Continued on page 6)

Sixto Franken, an Equip-
ment Tradesman "A" in
Mechanical-Refinery Mainten-
ance & Planning Division, In-
strument Section, will reach
his 30th service anniversary
on October 21.
He started his Lago career
as a Laborer in the instru-
ment Section where he ad-
vanced to Instrument Helper
A in 1945.
After one-year service in
the local army in 1946, he
returned to the Instrument
Section. In 1961, after work-
ing his way up through the
Instrumentman categories, he
was promoted to Instrument-
man A.
Mr. Franken received his
present job title in 1967.

During a Lago/Press Luncheon
at the Esso Club, Lago employ-
ees Frollan Hodge (c) and Moi-
ses Kusmus (2nd I), Editor and
Advertising Manager, respective-
ly of "The Local", are presented
with a cake by Aruba Esso News
Editor A. Werleman, on the oc-
casion of "The Local's" 25th an-
niversary on October 5.

Once again Lago was the lea-
der in safety by winning the
1972 National Safety Council
contest while competing with
nine other major refineries
worldwide. This award for 1972
was presented to Lago's Vice
President, LeRoy Johnston, by
the Head of the Social and La-
bor Affairs Division in Aruba,
Ralph Richardson, during a ce-
remony in Lago's General Office
Building on October 5, 1973 at-
tended by the Press, Radio and
Television, and other members
of Lago Management.
On this occasion, Mr. John-
ston commended and congratu-
lated the employees with this
remarkable achievement. During
1972 Lago personnel had work-
S ,I- E.

ed almost 3,000,000 manhours
with only one disabling injury.
This gave the company a low-
accident frequency rate of .34,
which means that less than one-
half of one disabling injury was
experienced for each 1,000,000
manhours worked.
Mr. Johnston further said that
our employees attained this
splendid record while the major
construction activities of HDS-II
were going on in our refinery
and while they had to handle
about 22 turnarounds on several
of our units involving 210,000
manhours.
He concluded his remarks by
stating that this first place award
indicates that Lago employees
have a high sense of safety res-

Twenty-Six Years
ponsibility in performing their
daily jobs.
Also addressing the press re-
presentatives was Lago's Safety
Adviser Higinio Kelly. He outlin-
ed the company's organization
and programs, and stressed that
continuous training and empha-
sis.on safety, the procurement of
new safety equipment and tools
are a few of the many things
the company is doing to keep
the Lago Refinery one of the
safest in the petroleum industry.
In presenting the National
Safety Council's First Place
Award for 1972 to Mr. Johnston,
Mr. Richardson congratulated
Lago and employees on their
outstanding record.
With the 1972 National Safety
Council First Place Award, Lago
now holds eleven first place
awards for the past twenty-six
years. These milestones were
achieved in 1947, 1949, 1954,
1957, 1958, 1961, 1963, 1966,
1968, 1971 and 1972. In the past
twenty-six years, Lago also earn-
ed second place eight times.
As a recognition for the 1972
safety performance, Lago em-
ployees have been presented
with a Parker ballpoint with a
window in which one of four
safety slogans in English or Pa-
piamento appears each time the
pen's button is engaged.

Another group for the startup of the new unit, from left c
pa startmento di e unldad nobo, dl robez pa drechl): M.
(TOA), R. de Mey, A. L M. Connor and D. Leest (Mec'
ment), and some of the Machinists Involved In the startul
nan): L. F. Tromp, J. N. Pablo, M. Brete and

A recently completed unit of
the HDS-II Project is the Crude
Gas Compressor (G2AR). The
new Gas Compression Facilities
which are located north of the
existing Low Line Gas Compres-
sor (LCAR), was started up on
a total recycle on gas from the
Pipestills and put into operation
on September 17.
The unit, which was construct-
ed by A. G. McKee Company,
has a capacity of 6,820 cubic
ft. of gas per minute. The cen-
trifugal compressor is an Inger-
soll Rand 7450 RPM unit driven
by a 1500 HP General Dynamics

Electric Motor. The discharged
gas will be sent to the new
N2AR unit (Sour Virgin Naphtha
Hydrofiner).
To be well-prepared for the
operation of G2AR, two groups
of Process men each attended
a one-week training program
in the Administration Building
early in July this year. In ad-
dition to theoretical instructions
on three days, the men also
made several trips to the unit
in the field. The classes were
conducted by Process Foreman
Everett A. Beaujon.
Unit check-up and actual

ion Unit

(G2AR)

Into Operation
startup were under the direction
of Everett Beaujon and Ray
Martin. The Mechanical and
TOA personnel who contributed
most prominently for the safe
and orderly startup were Candy
Koolman and Barney J. Loffio,
Construction Supervision; Fer-
dinand R. Lo-Fo-Sang and Sam-
bo Johnson of Electrical Sec-
tion; Alex L. M. Connor and
Mickey Eckert of Rotating Equip-
ment, Antero Dijkhoff, Felix Bik-
ker and Jim Higginbotham of
Instrument Section and Donny
Henriquez of the Equipment In-
spection Section.

The first completely new
unit of the HDS-II Project to go
on stream on the reclaimed area
is the Virgin Naphtha Hydro-
finer Unit (N2AR). The unit was
brought up by a combined
startup team formed by a group
of conscientious HDS-II Task
Force. Lago Mechanical, Tech-
nical and Process personnel,
under the direction of Process
Foremen Dick Heywood and
Julio Curiel.

The unit came on stream on
September 21, and has aver-
agely processed approximately
30,000 barrels per day of Naph-
tha from the crude units. The
maximum rate to date was
49.000 B/SD. Naphtha is fed
through the N2AR furnace and
reactor system and the result-
ant "sweetened" naphtha pro-
duct is sent to L2AR, the re-
cently revamped Naphtha Hy-
drofiner Light Ends Unit, for
further processing. The princi-
pal parts of the unit are: Feed
drum and pumps, feed heat ex-
changers and furnace, reactor,
product separation, MEA ab-
sorption and recycle gas com-
pressors.

The N2AR Unit, which is de-
signed to "sweeten" or purify
60,000 barrels of "sour" naph-
tha per day from crudes, involv-
ed other HDS-II units as well
in its startup activities. These
are: the Crude Gas Compressor
(G2AR), which was started up on

September 17, and the HDS-II
Flare facilities which were put
into operation on August 31.
The unit is tied in to the new
DDC-4 computer system at the
Refining Operations Center.

The Lago personnel who are
operating the N2AR unit follow-
ed a training program conduct-
ed by Dick Heywood In the
Administration Building in June.
The three-day training sessions
consisted of both classroom
training and field unit opera-
tion training at the actual site
of the Virgin Naphtha Hydrofi-
ner Unit.

Startup operations of N2AR
on the "flats" involved, in ad-
dition to the HDS-II Project
Task Force, the excellent co-
operation and coordination of
the personnel from five Process
Divisions, namely: Refining Ope-
rations Center and Light Ends
Division, Utilities, HDS-I, Fuels
and Oil Movements.

Work on the N2AR Unit of
HDS-II began in June of 1972. It
was built by prime contractor
Arthur G. McKee Co., with Kirch-
ner, Rivaco, SECA and ANCO
as subcontractors, under the dir-
ection of Larry Van Aman of Es-
so Research, who is assigned to
the HDS-II Project Team.

On these pages we show sev-
eral groups of TOA and Lago
employees in the unit startup.

I F
(Continued from page 1)
boating and bowling. He and his
wife, Beverly, have two sons,
Thomas (12) and James (10).
They live in Seroe Colorado.
Jerry Jackson joined Lago in
April 1972 as a Senior Engineer
in Mechanical-Instrument Engin-
eering Section. Here he was as-
signed as Instrument Contact En-
gineer for all HDS-I and refinery
process units and the Refining
Operations Center (ROC).
A B.S. graduate in Electrical
Engineering from the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute since 1965,
Jerry has six years' experience
in the DuPont petrochemical in-
dustry before joining Lago. At
DuPont he worked in technical
and supervisory assignments and
followed several courses, such
as Supervisory Cost Control
(AMA), Report Writing, Compu-
terized Planning and Scheduling,
Investment Economics and Kep-
ner-Tregoe. His training courses
at Lago include Corrosion and
Attractiveness of Investments.
In his new post, Jerry is in
charge of the Electrical Engin-
eering Section of the Mechani-
cal Engineering Department.

Abito v/d Ree (at I) receives t
first prize for Largest Sailfish
(34 K) from Commodore Han '-
Steenhulsen. Some of the catch on the second fishing day, Oct. 7.

ive Promoted in Process, Mechanical, Technica

Off the job, he enjoys tennis,
photography, traveling and the
stock market. On his next vaca-
tion he plans to visit South
America. He and his wife Nancy
and two-year-old son, Jeffrey,
live in Seroe Colorado.
An ex-apprentice of the Lago
Vocational School, Simon We-
ver's first job after graduating in
1952 was as a Process Helper C
in Piocess-Catalytic & Light
Light Ends Division. Here he
progressed through the Process
Helper categories and Levelman
to Assistant Operator in 1959.
Simon was promoted to Proc-
ess Technician in 1963, and to
Shift Foreman in the former Re-
fining Division in 1968. He trans-
ferred to the HDS-II Division
late last year and was in charge
of preparing the operation man-
ual for the recently revamped
L2AR unit. He also handled all
L2AR classroom training and
was process startup leader for
the unit.
He has attended the Organi-
zational Development Lab., and
has taken courses in Effective
Management, Kepner Tregoe,
Basic Computer Theory, Critical

Path Method, and the Process
Training Program at Lago. He
also attended the Principles of
Instrumentation Course at Mas-
sachusetts.
Simon spends his leisure
hours reading, gardening, swim-
ming or watching football ga-
mes. He also enjoys hiking with
his kids.
Married to the former Philo-
mena Arends, they have four
children: Alberti (14), Rossano
(12), Michael (8) and five-year-
old Lisette. They make their
home in Savaneta.
Frankle Kock completed the
John F. Kennedy (Technical)
School in 1957, and the UTS in
Nijmegen, Holland, before join-
ing the Company in 1962. His
first assignment was as a Jr.
Engineering Assistant A in the
Technical-Process Engineering
Division.
The following year he left on
a Lago Scholarship grant to
study at the West Virginia In-
stitute of Technology, where he
obtained a B.S. degree in Chem-
ical Engineering in 1967. He was
reemployed that same year in
the Technical-Laboratories as

lI
Blender for Gas Oil, Kerosene
and Motor Gasoline products. In
1970 he transferred to the Proc-
ess Engineering Division as a
Contact Engineer for the Alky
Plant, NFAR, LEAR-1, ISAR, FGS
and SAR Plants. Most recently
he has been an acting Process
Foreman in the Alky Plant and
in the Refining Operations Cen-
ter (ROC).
Frankie took the Kepner-Tre-
goe and Process Economics
courses here at Lago, and at-
tended a Process Design course
in Caracas.
When at home, he enjoys
reading or listening to stereo
music. His favorite sports in-
clude bowling and tennis. He is
past chairman of the Esso Club
Bowling Committee and has
been a member for the past two
years. On his next vacation he
plans to visit Caracas.
Married, he and his wife,
Shannon, have two children:
Eric (5) 'and Lysina (2). They
live at Cura Cabai.
A 1957 MULO graduate from
the St. Augustinus College in
San Nicolas, Dolf Genser follow-
(Continued on page 8)

SW

ARUBA ESSO NEWS

October 19, 1973

October 19, 1973 ARUBA ESSO NEWS 7

Bucuti Yacht Club Ta Tene 2do Torneo Internacional di Pesca Oct. 5 7

Largest Wahoe trophy to Largest Dolphin trophy 5th Largest Sailfish trophy 4th Largest Sailfish trophy 3rd Largest Sailfish to
Stanley Hunt, by Albertina goes to Ben Raaymakers, goes to Pedro Monart, by to Felix Callejo presented Hubert Galmeyer, handed
de Lange. by Miss RijsdiJk. Miss Sonja Tromp. by Ronny de Cuba. by Armond Slater.

During the leaders' congress of the Antillean Scouts Association,
(APV) held at the Washington Youth Center on Oct. 6 & 7, the 0 0
Scouts' Chief Commissioner David v/d Ree Installed three new -
board members of APV: (top left picture I to r) Th. DIJkhoff, mem-
ber; G. T. Hernandez, chairman; A. A. Pletronella, treasurer. In top
right picture is a group of guests, while at right Is a group of scout
leaders, with District Commissioner D. Vrleswijk, who received aA '
gold Oriole distinction, at far right. Mrs. Ursula Krolls, the Club Dis- /
trict Commissioner, was also awarded a sliver Oriole distinction for .
long, meritorious service on this occasion. On Sunday, Oct. 7, lect-
ures and discussions were held, attended also by scout represent-
atives from Venezuela, Curacao and Aruba. .

REMINDER
Participants In the III Exhibi-
tion of Popular Arts are re-
minded to turn In their art
works at the Department of
Culture & Education, Iraus-
quin Plaza, not later than Oc-
tober 31, 1973. After this date
no entries will be accepted.

I Five Employe
(Continued from page 6)
ed Laboratory Assistant courses
in Holland before joining Lago
in 1962.
His first assignment was as a
Junior Analyst in Technical-Lab-
oratories, where he became a
Jr. Laboratory Assistant in 1964.
While a Laboratory Assistant in
the Analytical/Development Sec-
tion, he was awarded a LEAP
scholarship (Lago Educational
Assistance Program) to further
his education in the U.S.A.
In 1969 Dolf was reemployed
as an Engineer in the Labora-
tories upon obtaining a B.S. de-
gree in Chemical Engineering
from the University of South Ca-
rolina. In 1970 he transferred to

ees Promoted
Technical-Process
Division. Recently, h
an assignment in tI
tion, and as Proce
HDS. As of Octobe
signed to the Crud
Coordination Sectic
Dolf has followed
Economics Course
the Basic Design C
racas.
He dedicates his
to bowling. He is p
of the Esso Club
Committee.
Married, he and h
ane, have two chil
(10) and Mylene (9)
who plans to visit I
this year, resides in